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Word error rate (WER) is a metric used to evaluate the quality of transcriptions produced by Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. In many applications, it is of interest to estimate WER given a pair of a speech utterance and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Chanho Park , Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain

Measuring the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems requires manually transcribed data in order to compute the word error rate (WER), which is often time-consuming and expensive. In this paper, we continue our effort in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Ahmed Ali , Steve Renals

We propose a general framework to compute the word error rate (WER) of ASR systems that process recordings containing multiple speakers at their input and that produce multiple output word sequences (MIMO). Such ASR systems are typically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are evaluated using Word Error Rate (WER), which is calculated by comparing the number of errors between the ground truth and the transcription of the ASR system. This calculation, however,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Akshay Krishna Sheshadri , Anvesh Rao Vijjini , Sukhdeep Kharbanda

The success of the multilingual automatic speech recognition systems empowered many voice-driven applications. However, measuring the performance of such systems remains a major challenge, due to its dependency on manually transcribed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shammur Absar Chowdhury , Ahmed Ali

Recent advances in supervised, semi-supervised and self-supervised deep learning algorithms have shown significant improvement in the performance of automatic speech recognition(ASR) systems. The state-of-the-art systems have achieved a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Somnath Roy

Word error rate (WER) is a standard metric for the evaluation of Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. However, WER fails to provide a fair evaluation of human perceived quality in presence of spelling variations, abbreviations, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Satarupa Guha , Rahul Ambavat , Ankur Gupta , Manish Gupta , Rupeshkumar Mehta

Natural language processing of conversational speech requires the availability of high-quality transcripts. In this paper, we express our skepticism towards the recent reports of very low Word Error Rates (WERs) achieved by modern Automatic…

Text encodings from automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts and audio representations have shown promise in speech emotion recognition (SER) ever since. Yet, it is challenging to explain the effect of each information stream on the…

The Word Error Rate (WER) is the common measure of accuracy for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Transcripts are usually pre-processed by substituting specific characters to account for non-semantic differences. As a result of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Korbinian Kuhn , Verena Kersken , Gottfried Zimmermann

The common standard for quality evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is reference-based metrics such as the Word Error Rate (WER), computed using manual ground-truth transcriptions that are time-consuming and expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Thiago Ferreira , Ahmet Gunduz , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny , Golara Javadi

Measuring automatic speech recognition (ASR) system quality is critical for creating user-satisfying voice-driven applications. Word Error Rate (WER) has been traditionally used to evaluate ASR system quality; however, it sometimes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Suyoun Kim , Duc Le , Weiyi Zheng , Tarun Singh , Abhinav Arora , Xiaoyu Zhai , Christian Fuegen , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer

Word Error Rate (WER) is the primary metric used to assess automatic speech recognition (ASR) model quality. It has been shown that ASR models tend to have much higher WER on speakers with speech impairments than typical English speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Jimmy Tobin , Qisheng Li , Subhashini Venugopalan , Katie Seaver , Richard Cave , Katrin Tomanek

The performances of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are usually evaluated by the metric word error rate (WER) when the manually transcribed data are provided, which are, however, expensively available in the real scenario. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Kai Fan , Jiayi Wang , Bo Li , Shiliang Zhang , Boxing Chen , Niyu Ge , Zhijie Yan

Reverberation negatively impacts the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Prior work on quantifying the effect of reverberation has shown that clarity (C50), a parameter that can be estimated from the acoustic impulse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Hannes Gamper , Dimitra Emmanouilidou , Sebastian Braun , Ivan J. Tashev

Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have traditionally been evaluated using English datasets, with the word error rate (WER) serving as the predominant metric. WER's simplicity and ease of interpretation have contributed to its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Thennal D K , Jesin James , Deepa P Gopinath , Muhammed Ashraf K

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) plays a crucial role in human-machine interaction and serves as an interface for a wide range of applications. Traditionally, ASR performance has been evaluated using Word Error Rate (WER), a metric that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Sujith Pulikodan , Sahapthan K , Prasanta Kumar Ghosh , Visruth Sanka , Nihar Desai

We study the problem of evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that target dialectal speech input. A major challenge in this case is that the orthography of dialects is typically not standardized. From an ASR evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Ahmed Ali , Preslav Nakov , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

The predominant metric for evaluating speech recognizers, the Word Error Rate (WER) has been extended in different ways to handle transcripts produced by long-form multi-talker speech recognizers. These systems process long transcripts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
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